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South Asia → Gulf hospitality

Hospitality talent.
Ready for the Gulf.

Hospelio connects Gulf hotels with carefully selected hospitality professionals from South Asia — transparently and through licensed partners.

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Global Work. Done Right.

South Asian front office professional assisting a guest in a premium hotel Front office Guest arrival · Gulf property

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Employer funded

Worker verified

One point of contact

12-month follow-up

Our promises

Workers never pay
to get the job.

The employer covers recruitment costs, and we verify that directly with every worker before departure, after arrival and throughout the first year.

  • You speak to the same person, from brief to arrival.
  • Every shortlist explains why each name is on it.
  • We report what workers tell us, including bad news.
  • Licensed partners handle every regulated step.

The route

How it works

Hospelio coordinates the chain. Licensed partners handle the regulated steps.

  1. Brief

    Roles, numbers and timing.

    An agreed role profile

  2. Prepare

    Structured profiles, screening and status tracking.

    Screened, briefed candidates

  3. Select

    A focused shortlist. You decide.

    Names with the reasons behind them

  4. Follow up

    Arrival, worker voice and the first year.

    Follow-up reported at 3, 6 and 12 months

Hospelio

One point of contact

Structured briefs · screening · shortlist · fee checks · handoff tracking

Licensed partners

Regulated steps

Contracts · clearances · medicals · visas · travel

Transparent by design

Ask the worker.
Then ask again.

We ask every worker directly at every stage, then report what we hear back to the hotel — documented, not just promised.

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Example process viewFee & welfare checks
In view
  1. ApplicationCosts itemisedLogged
  2. Pre-departureAsked againLogged
  3. After arrivalRepeated on siteDue
  4. 3 / 6 / 12 monthsOngoing worker voicePlanned
Clear reporting for employers Protected worker voice

Markets

Where we source,
and where we place

Frontline hospitality teams for hotels across the Gulf. We work with several licensed sourcing partners rather than one, so a role can run through more than one pipeline and we can compare who delivers on it.

South Asia for frontline teams. Europe for senior and management roles.

Housekeeping · Kitchen · F&B service · Front of house · Management

Source markets

  • India
  • Sri Lanka
  • Bangladesh

Destination markets

  • Saudi Arabia
  • United Arab Emirates
  • Qatar

Initial focus

Founder-led accountability

Who you’ll be working with

Justin Wolswijk, co-founder of Hospelio

Justin Wolswijk

Partnerships & Quality

Builds the network that makes the business work.

Owns Gulf employer relationships, source-market partnerships, commercial negotiations and candidate quality standards, so every placement works for both employer and worker.

justin@hospelio.com
Sebastiaan van Kemenade, co-founder of Hospelio

Sebastiaan van Kemenade

Operations & Technology

Builds the engine behind the business.

Owns process design, operations, technology, data, automation and economics, turning demand into a repeatable model that can scale without losing control.

sebastiaan@hospelio.com
The division

Justin brings in and safeguards the network. Sebastiaan builds the machine that delivers it.

Start here

Tell us who
you need.

Share the roles, numbers and timing. We’ll map the route, explain what’s realistic and prepare the right pipeline before roles become urgent.

Takes a minute, or email justin@hospelio.com.

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